OT: Here we go again ...

[Matthew Carpenter]

They haven't drawn the conclusion that the initial outage was caused by it, but there are reports (computerworld I believe) that MSBlast was responsible for clogging the network pipe between power stations used to avoid the cascading effect.  The cascade-avoidance system simply couldn't do it's job...

I agree that it probably STARTED there as well... 

On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 06:10:28 -0400
dep <dep at linuxandmain.com> wrote:

> quoth Michael Hipp:
> | http://apnews.excite.com/article/20030916/D7TJP93G0.html
> |
> | By TED BRIDIS
> |
> | WASHINGTON (AP) - Security researchers on Tuesday detected hackers
> | distributing software to break into computers using flaws announced
> | last week in some versions of Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)'s Windows
> | operating system.
> 
> i still highly suspect that the august 14 blackout here (and in much of 
> the country east of the mississippi and north of the south) is due to 
> somebody cracking a windows box someplace.
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> dep
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